Pain Interventions

Pain represents a tremendous burden to the healthcare system impacting it at multiple levels. Pain control had been largely pharmaceutical but come with many drawbacks including addiction. As the opioid crisis continues to persist, utilization of pain ameliorating procedures will continue to be in demand. Interventional radiologists have the technical skillset and imaging expertise to provide relief to patients suffering from benign diseases of aging to ailments caused by cancer. Advanced image-guided pain intervention is a rapidly evolving field that consists of modernization of classic regional anesthesia techniques as well as integration of novel catheter-directed treatments and percutaneous ablation of pain generators.